Example Sentences

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Measured on that scale, scientists have familiarized themselves with the coronavirus at lightning speed, partly by accelerating changes to this process that were already underway.

From New York Times • Aug. 22, 2021

Fans have familiarized themselves with her raffish sensibility and lacerating insights into how our culture portrays women.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 14, 2016

As officials envision the system, new drone owners would have to register their purchases online and confirm that they have familiarized themselves with basic guidelines for where drones can fly and under what conditions.

From Washington Post • Oct. 19, 2015

But he warns us that all the characters in these stories are fictitious—he, too; his defense being that "historians have familiarized us with the truth that the past is a proper field for the imagination."

From Time Magazine Archive

Toorgenef, Gogol, Pisanski, and Goncharov are Russian names whose excellence in literature have familiarized them to English readers.

From Due North or Glimpses of Scandinavia and Russia by Ballou, Maturin Murray